Office of the President

Office of the President

Dr. Richard MyersDr. Richard Myers

Richard Myers became President of Algoma University on July 1, 2010.

Prior to his arrival, Richard Myers was a Professor of Political Science at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and served as that university’s Vice President (Academic) for 7 years. He spent four years on the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission, including two years as its Chair. Dr. Myers is also a member of the Council of Scholars of the American Academy of Liberal Education, an accrediting body for liberal arts universities that is based in Washington, D.C.

In addition to his teaching and administrative responsibilities at St Thomas University, Dr. Myers has been involved in local, national and international civil society organizations. He served for many years as the President of Dialogue New Brunswick, an organization dedicated to the improvement of French-English relations, and as President of French for the Future. He served on the Board of Directors of the Fredericton United Way and the Fredericton Emergency Shelter, the New Brunswick College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the 1993 Canadian mission that monitored the first free elections in Russia. He also served as Assistant Coach of the St. Thomas Varsity Men’s Basketball team for seven years.

Dr. Myers earned his undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of Toronto. After a stint studying in New York City, followed by a year in Paris, he returned to the University of Toronto to complete his Ph.D in political science in 1986. Fluent in French, Greek, German and Italian, he has also taught at Hokusei Gakuen University (Japan) and Wenzhou University (China). His best known publication is The Canadian Regime, a popular textbook in political science that has been published in both English and French and is now in its fourth edition.